ORLAND-HEROIN-AND-POT

Police say they seized 400 grams of heroin Monday in Orland. On Tuesday, they announced the arrests of 15 people in connection with a drug ring in Oxford County. Even before those arrests, the MDEA had arrested more people on heroin charges in the first 11 months of 2015 than in all of 2014.
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Police say they seized 400 grams of heroin, 22 pounds of marijuana, 750 Oxycodone pills, over a dozen firearms and $40,000 in cash Monday from the home of Paul Chiumiento of Orland.
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